Astrology Explored

June 4, 2008

It’s all Monica’s fault at Astrology Mundo, getting me started again on Sedna. There she posted about Tatum’s O’Neils drug arrest. For those of us that remember, Tatum O’Neal wowed us with her Oscar awarding winning performance in the hit movie “Paper Moon” when she was only eight years old. Surely, we thought, that the child with the movie star pedigree and the talent to prove it would be a major star in the years to come.

It didn’t happen.

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April 27, 2008

Sedna needs a glyph and an internet search reveals a few of them.

The top symbol is attributed to Brian Lee.

Zane Stein’s site shows the bottom three .

Jennifer Hoffman posted her meditations on Sedna and her glyph:

Her glyph is the vertical symbol of infinity, an elongated figure of eight, symbolizing limitlessness, timelessness, and oneness with Spirit

In the August/September 2004 edition of The Mountain Astrologer, Brian Trussler suggests the bottom symbol. He says:

“It is the letter “S� with the upper loop closed, to become an Inuit face in a sealskin hood, looking towards us, with the addition of flippers to its lower terminus, in the style of a selkie (a mermaid like figure). It feels feminine all on its own, without recourse to the Venus glyph. It is distinctive mnemonic, and reduces well in font sizes.�

With Sedna representative of a dysfunctional part of our lives, the S figure is wholly appropriate. The enclosed loop at the top of the figure represents eternity and the cycle of life, the open loop at the bottom represents the missing part of us that separates us from the Divine. Sedna invites us to recognize that part of us that is distorted and heal it so that we can reconnect with the Divine within. Since this symbol works for me, this is the one I will be using.

The Astrology of Sedna, Houses Seven through Twelve
Sedna, Loss, Betrayal and Transmutation
Sedna, The Blind Spot in Your Life
The Astrology of Sedna, How This Planet Works in Your Life (Houses One through Six)

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April 23, 2008

The chart for the discovery of Sedna illustrates the psychological motivations behind the story of the Inuit maiden who transmutes into the Goddess of the Sea. In the myth of Sedna is a self absorbed young women who fails to make a good marriage, aided and abetted by her father. When Sedna becomes a burden to him, he passes off his daughter to the first suitor that came along, who turned out to be a fulmar, a demon bird. Sedna dies as a result of her husband’s attack on her and her father as she attempts to escape her dreadful marriage. Her father in fear of his life, tosses her overboard. As she clings to the boat, he slices off her fingers at the joints to loosen her grip. Sedna does not die, but through her pain and betrayal, transmutes life giving feminine energy into birthing the food animals of the sea, with herself as their mistress.

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April 19, 2008

We continue our first look at Sedna in the Houses continuing where we left off, at the cusp of the seventh house of partnerships. To find your Sedna position, go here and look up the date closest to your birthday.

Sedna in the Seventh–Understand that the concept of partnership is formed in the early years by a having a bonded relationship with a parent. The parent has one contract, to nurture the child, the child another, to grow up into a productive human being. Somewhere along that developmental tract, those contracts were voided and as a result, your sense of partnership is seriously skewed. Either you abrogate your responsibilities to your partner or you take on way too much of the work of the relationship. If you end up in therapy over your relationship, listen to your therapist very carefully, because they understand what you need to do better than you.

Sedna in the eight house, Sedna in aspect to Pluto- This is a position Freudians would love to explore. Your parents failed to establish appropriate parent/child boundaries, treating the you as an extension of their needs. Either you were treated in some way as a meal ticket, or inappropriate sexual content/tensions colored your interactions with them. You have a vague sense that normal people don’t act like this, but like all young victims of abusive relationships think you did something wrong so that mommy or daddy didn’t love you in the right way. Having learned from the best, you can be very manipulative. Many of you, fearing that something is wrong with you, steer clear of serious relationships.

Sedna in the Ninth House, Sedna in Aspect to Jupiter–The value of education and/ or higher philosophies was never imparted to you. In some respects, you weren’t taught important pieces of these areas and consequently you lack either education credentials you need or the basis to form a proper moral center. You might have been told for some reason that you didn’t need to go the Sunday school or that college was unnecessary even though you wanted to go. However, nothing was provided in its place and consequently you lack valuable tools to navigate the world. You tend to blame your failures on this aspect of neglect in your life, without assuming responsibility for correcting it yourself. If you do try, you find completing an education or establishing a religious practice an arduous task as you a difficult time grasping what you need to do to achieve these goals. Eschew gurus as this is a path you must walk alone.

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April 16, 2008

Every once in a while you get a client where nothing is quite right and then again nothing is quite wrong either. Everything on the surface looks good, home, career, etc. but there is an underlying sense of dissatisfaction you get from the client, something that goes beyond the usual Uranian and Neptunian sturm and drang of the mid-life crisis. There is a sense of opportunities missed or opportunities that never quite materialized. This is where Sedna comes in.

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You are traveling down the highway, looking to make a lane change. You check, everything looks clear, and then you nearly crash into another car traveling in your blindspot!. Where did that car from? It was there all along, you didn’t see it, couldn’t see it. This is how Sedna works in your chart.

Discovered in 2003, Sedna is a new dwarf planet that has not been defined in the astrologer’s lexicon. This astrologer has been working with it in charts and the above is the conclusion I’ve come to.

Sedna, extremely slow moving relative to School House Earth, has only traversed two signs in living memory. This means that all people alive today either has Sedna in the sign of Aries or Pisces. As such her power is in aspect to your planets or by house position.

Much of human behavior is learned. Sedna in your chart is where your parents or other caretakers failed to teach, leaving you with a spot in your life where it is like you are walking around in the dark, stumbling into the furniture.

As a preliminary definition, this is how Sedna appears to work with personal planets,especially in the hard aspects.

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October 5, 2007

Astrology for October 5 through October 11, 2007

Beyond Pluto is a wonky little planetoid named for the Inuit Goddess of the Sea. Sedna’s myth is a sad tale of loss, betrayal and transmutation.

In this tale Sedna is a beautiful Inuit maiden, living with her father, who allows her to do anything she pleases. This is an important aspect of the story, as Sedna’s father irresponsibly avoids teaching Sedna any values. As a result, Sedna develops into a self absorbed young woman who refuses all offers of marriage. At a certain point, Sedna’s father decided he could not longer afford to feed himself and Sedna, and decides she should marry.

Because Sedna had turned away all the potential suitors in her village she was forced to look elsewhere for a future husband. A suitor came to her village dressed in beautiful furs and proposed to Sedna. Though she didn’t see his face, she was impressed by the richness of his furs and accepted his offer. They were married. Sedna’s husband took her far from her village to her new home. Sedna was expecting a fine and comfortable hut, but instead was taken to a barren rock of an island to a nest lined with feathers. It was only then did Sedna see her husband’s face and she found to her horror that she married a demon bird.

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